Vampires must be firsthand historians

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"[Jerry]’s not conformed to typical human behavior and reactions. I could just take time in vampire logic and backstory, and it could be quite a quagmire. He’s 400 years old, so where was he during Versailles? In the late 1800s, did he hang around with certain poets, was he in Paris, and was he a friend of Baudelaire? So you can go to town. Was he in America, was he in China during the uprising and how many languages does he speak? Nine languages in 400 years? Yeah, that’s easy! At the end of the day, you throw it away and find practical ways to try and put those notions to experience, which became his accent, his slow delivery, everything’s kind of slow. He’s not an American; he’s an Irishman doing a non-American doing an American accent. I was just free to mix it up and have it as an offset pentameter. I felt if you were around Jerry, he’d seem perfectly normal, but there would be something a little bit odd about him, the way he speaks, something a little bit not right. Which was not the case with Chris Sarandon. Chris is just so beautiful, elegant and dignified; he felt very much like a normal man. With mine, there was a bit more of an emotional disconnect. He was more predatory."